Bartók, Béla. "The Influence of Peasant Music on Modern Music." and "The Relation of Folk Song to the Development of Art Music of Our Time." In [Strunk v.7].

You must attempt one of these two readings, but don't worry if you don't get through them:

1. An easy introduction to analyzing Bartók: Bachmann, Tibor and Peter J. Bachmann. "An Analysis of Béla Bartók’s Music through Fibonaccian Numbers and the Golden Mean." Musical Quarterly 65.1 (1979), pp. 72-78 (read 72-top of 77). Their work is based on Ernő Lendvai, Béla Bartók: an analysis of his music (London, Kahn and Averill, 1971).

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